diff --git a/extensions/ql-vscode/src/common/jsonl-reader.ts b/extensions/ql-vscode/src/common/jsonl-reader.ts
index a20488c48..b1d4932f8 100644
--- a/extensions/ql-vscode/src/common/jsonl-reader.ts
+++ b/extensions/ql-vscode/src/common/jsonl-reader.ts
@@ -1,26 +1,54 @@
-import { readFile } from "fs-extra";
+import { stat } from "fs/promises";
+import { createReadStream } from "fs-extra";
+
+const doubleLineBreakRegexp = /\n\r?\n/;
 
 /**
  * Read a file consisting of multiple JSON objects. Each object is separated from the previous one
  * by a double newline sequence. This is basically a more human-readable form of JSONL.
  *
- * The current implementation reads the entire text of the document into memory, but in the future
- * it will stream the document to improve the performance with large documents.
- *
  * @param path The path to the file.
  * @param handler Callback to be invoked for each top-level JSON object in order.
  */
 export async function readJsonlFile<T>(
   path: string,
   handler: (value: T) => Promise<void>,
+  logger?: { log: (message: string) => void },
 ): Promise<void> {
-  const logSummary = await readFile(path, "utf-8");
-
-  // Remove newline delimiters because summary is in .jsonl format.
-  const jsonSummaryObjects: string[] = logSummary.split(/\r?\n\r?\n/g);
-
-  for (const obj of jsonSummaryObjects) {
-    const jsonObj = JSON.parse(obj) as T;
-    await handler(jsonObj);
-  }
+  void logger?.log(
+    `Parsing ${path} (${(await stat(path)).size / 1024 / 1024} MB)...`,
+  );
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const stream = createReadStream(path, { encoding: "utf8" });
+    let buffer = "";
+    stream.on("data", async (chunk: string) => {
+      const parts = (buffer + chunk).split(doubleLineBreakRegexp);
+      buffer = parts.pop()!;
+      if (parts.length > 0) {
+        try {
+          stream.pause();
+          for (const part of parts) {
+            await handler(JSON.parse(part));
+          }
+          stream.resume();
+        } catch (e) {
+          stream.destroy();
+          reject(e);
+        }
+      }
+    });
+    stream.on("end", async () => {
+      if (buffer.trim().length > 0) {
+        try {
+          await handler(JSON.parse(buffer));
+        } catch (e) {
+          reject(e);
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+      void logger?.log(`Finishing parsing ${path}`);
+      resolve();
+    });
+    stream.on("error", reject);
+  });
 }